The Real Sixties
Tuesday 22 September
6.30 for a 7pm start, to include a glass of wine
We are delighted to welcome Dominic Sandbrook, historian and author
of the best-selling histories of Sixties Britain: Never Had it
so Good and White Heat to launch our new series
(Book signing)
Film Screening: I’m All Right Jack (1959)
(U)
Tuesday 13 October
10.30am – 12.15pm
Stanley Windrush, a recent Oxford graduate and old money aristocrat
takes a menial position at his uncle's armaments factory. Soon the
good-hearted Stanley finds himself in the middle of the complex
class struggle between management and labour, and the pawn in his
wicked uncle's crooked scheme. Staring Ian Carmichael, Peter
Sellers and directed by John Boulting & Roy Boulting.
(Running time 100 minutes)
The Public Taboo: Death & Dying in the
1960s
Tuesday 3 November
10.30-11.30am
Revd Dr Peter Jupp, Leverhulme Research Fellow, Durham
University Centre for Death and Life Studies.
The Strange Death of Moral Britain
1957-69
Tuesday 17 November
10.30-11.30am
Professor Christie Davies, author of The Strange Death of
Moral Britain (2006)
Harold Macmillan: The Great Change
Manager
Tuesday 24 November
10.30 – 11.30am
Francis Beckett, Journalist, author, and editor of the series
of 20 books: Prime Ministers of the 20th Century.
(Book signing)
The Space Race: Landing on the Moon &
Preventing WWIII
Tuesday 08 December
10.30 – 11.30am
Pat Norris,Space Strategy Manager at Logica UK and author
of Spies in the Sky (2007)
(Book signing)
Mapping the Beat: Rock, Literature and the British
Counterculture
Tuesday 12 January
10.30-11.30am
Simon Warner, Senior Teaching Fellow in Popular Music at the
University of Leeds.
From Morals to Ethics: Peace, Love, Hair and
Smoke
Tuesday 26 January
10.30-11.30am
Professor A C Grayling, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck
College, writer, journalist and broadcaster.
(Book signing)
Mary Whitehouse: Mrs Grundy, proto-Feminist or
class warrior?
Tuesday 2 February
Mary Kenny, journalist and writer
TV Premiers: Television & Prime Ministers,
1957-1969
Tuesday 9 March
10.30-11.30am
John K Walton, Department of Contemporary History, University
of the Basque Country.
The British in Spain 1957-1969
Tuesday 13 April
10.30-11.30am
John K Walton, Department of Contemporary History,
University of the Basque Country
Code-breakers: the scientists who measured life in
molecules
Tuesday 27 April
10.30-11.30am
Georgina Ferry, Science writer, and author of biographies of
the Nobel prize-winners Dorothy Hodgkin and Max
Perutz.
On the Buses: The End of Austerity Routemaster Bus
Trip
Tuesday 11 May
Morning tour: 9am – 12noon
Afternoon Tour: 1.30-4.30pm
Join us for a tour of iconic landmarks and key examples of
architecture from the period 1957 - 1969 on board a London
Transport Routemaster in its original condition.
With Joe Kerr, Head of Critical Studies & Historical
Studies, Royal College of Art & qualified Routemaster
driver.
Each tour departs and returns by the Gallery
gates on College Road Please arrive 15 minutes early to allow for
boarding time Please state when booking your preference for either
the morning or afternoon tour.
Unfortunately the Routemaster has no wheelchair storage and
restricted access Places are limited to 60 per tour so please
book early to avoid disappointment.
Generously supported by The Arriva Heritage
Fleet
Architecture & Community: British Architecture
1957 – 1969
Tuesday 25 May
10.30-11.30am
Professor Hilary Grainger, architectural historian and Dean
of the London College of Fashion at the University of the Arts,
London.
Lady Chatterley & the Bishop: The Honest to God Uproar
1963 and beyond
Tuesday 22 June
10.30-11.30am
Dr Kenneth Wolfe, Author of The Churches and the
BBC: the Politics of Broadcast Religion, 1922 –
1955.
Film Screening: Billy Liar (1963)
(PG)
Tuesday 29 Jun
10.30am - 12.00noon
A young Englishman named Billy Fisher dreams of escaping from
his dull working-class family and his dead-end job as an
undertaker's assistant. In constant conflict with his parents and
with the two women with whom he is romantically involved, Billy
regularly escapes into a rich fantasy world of his imagination.
Starring Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, and directed by John
Schlesinger
(Running Time 94 minutes)
Swinging Sixties: Swinging
Shakespeare
Tuesday 13 July
10.30-11.30am
Dr Jenny Stevens, Associate Lecturer of English Literature at
the Open University.
The Secrets of State: Preparing for the
Worst
Tuesday 20 July
6.30 for a 7pm start, to include a glass of wine
Professor Peter Hennessy, author, historian and Attlee
Professor of Contemporary History at Queen Mary, University of
London.
(Book signing)
£180 for the series, £162 concessions
and Friends (to include the evening launch lecture and final
lecture, each to include a glass of wine)
Booking is for the whole series. A very
limited amount of tickets will be available for each lecture at the
door on a first come, first served basis for £10, £9 Friends and
concessions
Please contact the education
department on 020 8299 8732 or email enquiries@dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk